Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.

I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night.

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.

The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.

I'm a great believer in the competitive system, and think that competition will bring us greater innovation and put American industry in information ahead of everyone also.

If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.